The BEST episodes written by Rob Rapley

The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory
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#1 - The Abolitionists: 1854-Emancipation and Victory

American Experience - Season 25 - Episode 4

Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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The Abolitionists: 1838-1854
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#2 - The Abolitionists: 1838-1854

American Experience - Season 25 - Episode 3

See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement.

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The Greely Expedition
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#3 - The Greely Expedition

American Experience - Season 23 - Episode 10

In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world’s surface that had been described as a "sheer blank." Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism. The film reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.

Murder of a President
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#4 - Murder of a President

American Experience - Season 28 - Episode 7

The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assassination by a deluded madman named Charles Guiteau. Follow Garfield's unprecedented rise to power, his shooting only four months into his presidency, and its bizarre and heartbreaking aftermath.

The Secret of Tuxedo Park
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#5 - The Secret of Tuxedo Park

American Experience - Season 30 - Episode 2

In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his country’s most valuable military secret — a revolutionary radar component — to a Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Using his connections, his money, and his brilliant scientific mind, Loomis and his team of scientists developed radar technology that played a more decisive role than any other weapon in World War II.

The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838
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#6 - The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838

American Experience - Season 25 - Episode 2

Abolitionist allies Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimké turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.

Wyatt Earp
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#7 - Wyatt Earp

American Experience - Season 22 - Episode 2

The complex life of a man who has come to represent western justice but had many connections to lawlessness.

Buffalo Bill
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#8 - Buffalo Bill

American Experience - Season 20 - Episode 13

The varied career of William Cody - from western legend to even greater fame in preserving the culture and mystique of the lifestyle through his "Wild West" shows.

Grand Coulee Dam
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#9 - Grand Coulee Dam

American Experience - Season 24 - Episode 6

Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression and the Native people whose lives were changed alongside historians and engineers, this film explores how the tension between technological achievement and environmental impact hangs over the project's legacy.

The Great War (3)
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#10 - The Great War (3)

American Experience - Season 29 - Episode 10